Aligned with our strategic goals,

• Add value to the overall research experience
• Achieve operational excellence
• Attract and retain top diverse staff
• Add value to the UW

the Office of Research and its units:

• Conduct regular surveys to obtain customer and employee feedback
• Hold quarterly OR leadership meetings
• Hold annual half-day leadership retreats
• Formulate strategic unit-specific goals for the upcoming year
• Measure critical unit functions and updates the organization's metrics dashboard quarterly
• Have active teams made up of management and staff addressing unit organizational improvement efforts on an ongoing basis

Through this work, the Office of Research remains committed to our strategic goals, mission and vision to "create an outstanding climate of support for University of Washington researchers, broadly enabling stellar research advances."